Connections 6 migration observations

I am sure that lots of you have installed or started migrations to Connections 6 by now .. but I have found a couple of gotchas across the installs and updates that I have managed so far. I am listing them here for sanities sake as I know when we google an error – this […]

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 3

In part 3 of the series we will actually attempt to migrate the data.   Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 In my experience the database migration is always most time consuming, so I always do the database first Use the text file of Commands that we created in part 2. Back up the […]

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 2

In part 2 of this series we will cover preparing the system and the commands and files required. There is a fair bit of file creation to do and configuring of the Database Transfer Tool (DBT)   Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 Step 3 – Prepare a system to recieve the data As […]

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 1

For those of you that follow me on twitter, you will have noticed that I have posted a number of tweets relating to a fun project I am working on. I have been working with a customer to move them from Connections 5 to Connections 5.5 – Not a massive issue – EXCEPT they are […]

Locked down doesn’t mean locked out

Over the past few days I have been installing a Connections environment in a locked down windows environment with a very agressive group policy. Which was a lot more locked down than I expected it to be, so here are a few gotchas that I discovered that may assist you if you are in the […]